Andy Wickham: A House Hippie at Warner-Reprise
Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California' (4th Estate), 2005
The news just came in that Wickham, the "company freak" who brought Joni Mitchell and others to the attention of Reprise boss Mo Ostin, died on March 29th. This is a short excerpt from my Hotel California, explaining the role Andy played at Burbank in the '60s.
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